Ghost: A popular and modern publishing platform
Reviewed by Gabriel Bachmann
Ghost
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Threat level
Hardened
A hardened pick. Worth the effort once you have chosen to shrink your footprint on purpose. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
Modern, fast, and built around the thing it’s good at: independent publishing with native newsletters and paid memberships, which is why creators who want to own their audience gravitate to it. The catch is self-hosting Ghost is more involved than a flat-file blog, so many end up on the paid managed service. If a newsletter-and-subscription business is your aim, it’s purpose-built for that. For a tiny static personal blog, it’s more machinery than you need.
GitHub at a glance
TryGhost/Ghost
Stars
54,442
+ 588 this week
Last commit
14d ago
healthy
License
MIT
Latest release
v6.49.0
20d ago
Stars, last 37d
Website at a glance
ghost.org
B score 70
Solid website security headers
Graded by Mozilla HTTP Observatory, tested 6d ago
Inspect this site yourself
Measures the security configuration of the tool's own website, not the privacy of the product itself. A strong tool can still score low here.
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Ghost license, in plain English
MIT Permissive
Do almost anything: use, change, and ship it, even inside closed-source products. The only condition is keeping the copyright notice.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Private use
Requires
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Permissive licensing lets anyone reuse this, including inside closed products. That is freedom to build on, but no guarantee that downstream copies stay open.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.
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